Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He regarded being chief secretary , with its need to cut departmental spending throughout Government , as having been the toughest of the jobs ‘ in terms of sheer workload ’ .
2 Baltic nationalism , which had been the least of the Tsar 's political worries and barely existed in 1917 , was nurtured by setting up independent little states as part of the quarantine belt against the Bolshevist infection .
3 Sir Edmond had been the first of the Goldsmiths to found a School but his example was soon followed .
4 In this respect Excel has always been the first of the Windows spreadsheet , and incorporated much of the ease of use that Windows offered .
5 Dixon , who campaigned upon the promise to " clean City Hall out not with a broom , but a shovel " , had been the first of the candidates to call for Barry 's resignation .
6 ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene .
7 The irony is , Juice could have been the first from the starting blocks , as he explains from an unstreet sofa in a chintz sitting room in Soho 's exclusive Hazlitt 's Hotel .
8 This is particularly so in the field of Scottish education , where folklore about having once been the best in the world has too easily fostered the delusion that restoring the old ways is the route to excellence .
9 Though Bede considered Oswald 's brother and successor , Oswiu , to have been the sixth of the overlords of the Anglo-Saxons ( HE 11 , 5 ) , it is clear that it was many years before Oswiu could securely establish himself as king even over all the northern Angles let alone as overlord of his southern neighbours and that this latter position was very short-lived .
10 The report said that the reshuffle had been the biggest since the founding of the People 's Republic of China in 1949 .
11 Yet the collapse of the Taurus settlements system project , at massive cost , turns out only to have been the latest in a line .
12 The first fourteen hours must have been the worst of the journey as I was not able to sleep , whatever position I sat in .
13 The impact of social class has , however , been the same on the mortality rates of both sexes .
14 It had been the same at the airport and I had thought then that perhaps he half expected Iris Sunderby to materialise out of the crowd .
15 Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well .
16 Things have never been the same at the Chandlers ' since .
17 If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less .
18 It had been the same over the Christmas decorations .
19 ‘ I have not been the same since the assault , ’ the 20-year-old student said at her flat near Hanover , where she is continuing her biology degree course .
20 He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo …
21 A These maggots are the young of the Onion Fly , and infestation tends to be worst on dry soils , particularly during a hot spell .
22 ‘ It is clear that UK standards are the highest at the moment .
23 These are the highest within the EC , having been set at the top of the EC recommended range .
24 Labour costs at the centre are the highest in the country : $78.50 an hour of straight-time for an electrician , compared with $45 an hour at a comparable centre in Los Angeles and $28 in Atlanta .
25 West German wage rates are the highest in the world , and most other European countries are more expensive than America or Japan ( chart 3 ) .
26 Using the notation the bounds proved by Walpole for aligned transversely isotropic elements are : where the upper bound is where are the greatest of the values and the lower bound is where are the least of these .
27 We are the wounded from every war , the world 's damned ones .
28 Beyond Roland are the earliest of the Malá Strana watermills , dating back to the Middle Ages .
29 A Khan is served by his vassals because he discharges his responsibility to make decisions which are the best for the majority of his people .
30 Skipper John Best is nevertheless faced with the tough task of ensuring that his crew are the best for the job .
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